so let's try this again in the new forum. (bad performance with seemingly correctly installed drivers)

here is my problem.

I am trying to play quake 3 but performance is choppy. Not a lot by any means (not like mesa) however enough to make aiming impossible :-(
I have the newest drivers installed, I have checked to see that quake 3 does use the correct libraries. I have tried NvAGP and AGPGART, I have experimented with nvclock. all to no avail.

I have a geforce 4 Ti4200 an athlon XP 1800+ 512MB DDRSDRAM SuSE 8.0 so it shoud run fine and anyway this happens at all resolutions and even at lowest detail levels (picmip 5!!).

if you have any ideas please please please help.

neutrino

PS I've set the drawFPS option to true in quake 3. the numbers change so fast I can't read anything - it just looks like 88. I remember somebody else on the former message board had the same effect but I don't know if any solution was found.

Well 88 isn't choppy. Perhaps you aren't using DGA mouse support in quake3. DGA mouse provides you with a smooth moving mouse (good for aiming ..). Perhaps is that the real problem you have. Check what the value for in_dgamouse is set too. If it is 1 it is good.

If you really think the problem is opengl related (which I doubt) you can do an updatedb. Then do a locate libGL to find all libGL related files.

I would remove the libGL.so from the quake3 dir since that one isn't needed.

Why don't you run a timedemo in quake3?
For 1.31 it is possible to run them. Here's a quick howto:
- rename pak6.pk3 from the baseq3 to pak6.zip.
- unzip the zip file to a temp dir
- create a dir baseq3/demos (in the quake3 dir)
- copy the file four.dm66 (from the temp/demos dir) to baseq3/demos
- rename four.dm66 to four.dm67
- rename pak6.zip back to pak6.pk3
- run quake3
- enter in the console "timedemo 1"
- then in the console: "demo four"
- after the demo check your fps

actually it felt like lag at first compelling to ping myself just to make sure it's not
and when playing on a laggy connection the lags (jumps) occur more randomly. I get little 'jumps' regularly ~4-6 times a second (that's how it feels anyway) [the slideshow effect?]